Singularity University empowers the global community with the mindset, skill set and network to create an abundant future. For the first time in South Africa, leading-edge speakers from SingularityU will join South African leaders, change makers,entrepreneurs and innovators for an unforgettable experience on 23-24 August 2017 in Johannesburg.
The summit will include three sessions on biotechnology and medical advances. Raymond McCauley will be speaking on how to hack the code of life using digital biology, while Dr Divya Chander, a neuroscientist, will be speaking about groundbreaking medical technologies, such as wearable neural devices and brain monitors. The medical fireside session will be in conversation with Dr. Ryan Noach, deputy CEO at Discovery Health....

Our #NotAskingForAnything campaign is more than just a social media hashtag. It’s a heartfelt invitation for anyone – from regular, good-hearted people, all the way to big businesses and corporations – to join us in doing whatever we can for real people in need. We’re on the ground, offering medical care, safe learning spaces and even corrective surgery for kids with clefts, but we could do so much more together. We don’t want anything for ourselves. But we do want to make a real difference in the lives of others. Join us. We have a real chance to change the world for the better....

Resolve Capacity has won the Corporate Innovation Award at the 2015 MyWorld of Tomorrow SA Innovation Awards for its Clinic-in-a-Box, a turnkey infrastructural concept for the rapid deployment and commissioning of a clinic. These prefabricated structures can be erected within less than a day, and contain all the components required to deliver a total solution, packed and ready for delivery in 20 to 40 ft containers.

In a new study appearing in the 9 October 2014 issue of the journal Cell, Yale researchers Brant Webster, Patrick Lusk, and colleagues describe a key quality control mechanism that protects new cells from inheriting defective NPCs.

X-ray computed tomography (CT), also called X-ray microscopy, is a non-destructive technique for visualising interior features within solid objects and for obtaining digital information on their 3-D geometries and properties. The first nanoCT scanner in Africa will be officially launched on 15 September 2014 at Stellenbosch University's Central Analytical Facilities.